Dr Roger Tucker

Roger is a technology researcher turned entrepreneur who describes his research career as the “science of the non-existent”. He started out as an academic with a PhD in Speech over Packet-Switched Networks (now VoIP) – long before the days of the internet, or even networks with enough bandwidth to carry voice.

After lecturing for a few years he moved back into full-time research in a contract R&D start-up, Ensigma, working on a wide range of speech processing technologies based on totally unrealistic but very effective models of human speech production. He then joined Hewlett Packard Research Labs working on technologies relevant for a future where computing processing and memory would be much faster & bigger – which of course they now are.

He latterly worked on technologies for development, being Director of the Local Language Speech Technology Initiative, before founding Sonocent Ltd in 2007 to tackle the problem of note-taking in Higher Education, particularly for students with dyslexia. He recently retired as CEO but remains as Chairman of Sonocent’s board.

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